TripAdvisor Reviews Mito Daiichi Hotel Annex

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... trains right up to the shinkansen on exhibition... well, at least the front bit of the shinkansen. Most were interactive and you could enter most of the carriages. There was a large turntable in the centre of the room which demonstrated the way they rotated the trains. Unfortunately, we were on the third floor when it started and by the time we made it down, we had just missed it.

Final preps done and just relaxing today. Marc giving his last seminar. They are giving us a goodbye party this evening and heading home tomorrow. What a summer it has been and life changing too. I am now a Chiari Brain Surgery survivor, my year anniversary is tomorrow. I did it!!!!! Yeah. If I can conquer this I can conquer ANYTHING!!! Thank you Japan for giving me guidance, strength, courage, kindness and so much more. You will always have a special place in my ...

... about how much I will miss Japan, the people we met and have become friends with. We first visited the Tokyo National Museum with many artifacts and antiques from Japan. We loved it. We kept saying OMG!! Afterward we met Moemi and Sayaka for lunch at a lovely Japanese restaurant. It was so wonderful to see them after all this time. They were teenagers last time we saw them ...

... normal person not to bothersome but to someone with ringing in the ears and SEH the sound is very loud and intense and pure torture!! I walked with my headphones on and capped my ears with my hands whole way to and from 7 eleven. I must have looked crazy to the uncoming cars and walkers as I walked but it was either that or have a major crying fit. I will not miss that sound. OMG!!! Marc just returned with a case of tomatoes from the mayor of Tatami. (He is a wealthy tomato farmer). ...

... but it was as if some sort of intense fatigue set in. 'Cos 3 months is actually a really long time to feel as though you're trying super hard but not really getting anywhere. Despite my continual efforts I hadn't managed to find a niche group of people at uni, or 'my tribe' as a fellow Aussie exchange student once described it. I was starting to wonder what on earth I was doing here.

Luckily for me, a well-timed visit from my cousin Adele gave me a bit of a reprieve and ...